Hello friends and welcome to chilarticle. In today’s post, we are going to check a viral news. Recently we got a query on our mail in which it was asked whether 125 rupee coin is real or not. So here, know the truth of the 125 rupee coin.
When we do some research about 125 rupee coin, we found that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi released a special commemorative coin of Rupees 125 to mark the 125th birth anniversary of ISKCON founder Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada via video conferencing.
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About Swami Prabhupada
Swami Prabhupada founded the ISKON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) commonly known as the ‘Hare Krishna movement’. International Society for Krishna Consciousness has translated the Shrimad Bhagavad Geeta and other Vedic literature in 89 languages, playing a stellar role in the dissemination of Vedic literature across the world.
On conducting a research on 125 Rupee coin news we found out that it is an commemorative coin.
The commemorative coins are released to honor certain Renowned personality or to celebrate historically important day but are not legal tender.
Before this some more coins were released as commemorative coin.
- A 1000 Rupees coin was released as a commemorative coin in the year 2012 by the govt of India to celebrate the thousand years of Brihadeeswara temple (dedicated to lord Shiva located at South bank of Kaveri river in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu), reported The Times of India.
- A 200 Rupees coin was released in 2016 by then culture minister of India Mahesh Sharma on the Martyrdom Day of 1857 mutiny hero Tatiya Tope.
- A 100 Rupees coin was released in the year 2018 by PM Narendra Modi in the memory of former PM Atal Vihari Vajpaee. The coin has earlier been released in the years 2010, 2011, 2014 and 2015 on other important occasions.
- 125 Rupees coin was released in the year 2015 by PM Narendra Modi to commemorate the 125 th birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar and again by the the Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu in on June 29, 2018 on the occasion of Statistics Day to mark the 125 th birth anniversary of P.C. Mahalanobis.
- The government on November 13, 2018 had announced that a 75 Rupees coin will be released to commemorate the 75 th anniversary of the hoisting of the Tricolour for the first time by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose at Port Blair.
125 Rupee coin Real or Fake
125 Rupee coin is completely real as it is an commemorative coin.